No, but the industry thinks it is.

me too and camp out for a while to see them. Can you please enlighten me why her weight is an issue for majority?? shallow?? because i dont care about her weight, is it just me???

I don’t understand how so called “feminists” praise a song that’s title is from the phrase pimps use before they beat the women they’re exploiting. Just because a woman is saying it doesn’t neutralize it of its toxic origins.

I'd pay my and everybody's money to see that happen.

her and Adele should do a duet

You may have noticed that Clarkson is fat. That is the reason behind the confusing things you identified.

Just goes to show that all it takes is a good voice to change a meh song into a decent one. Kelly clarkson is so underrated. She’s got killer pipes. I seem to recall reading that she’s looking for work and people to duet with but nobody wants to collab?! Wtf? She’s WAY more talented than most pop artists out there!

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

The power dynamic is only at play when there is a direct student-teacher relationship at hand (within a single class). Unfortunately, the reaction hasn’t been to ban this one, single dynamic, but a blanket ban on any type of relationship, which could include working in a non-graded environs, the enrollment of an…

I like her and I work at Jezebel.

The Patriot Act came out of some people being creeps too. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t a terrible idea.

Cannot recomend Gift of Fear highly enough.

I’m 56 and cannot understand why younger generations AREN’T as angry. Give it time. It grinds you down - even with the battles won, the shit is still there.

Exactly. The position of “I’m a feminist but not angry” is something that women are forced to learn to affect in their teens and early twenties. It’s a pre-fab feminism that mass media pushes hard. But just as you say, the victories that women made in the sixties and seventies have all been reconfigured as defeats. We…

Yeah, this is always the “tone” argument. If you were just nicer, maybe we’d respect you. I bring this up whenever someone tells me to “calm down” when I’m talking about feminism, and more than not, I’m speaking at the same volume as the men do during their arguments and discussions. But the perception is that I’m…

If you think anything has changed for the better you haven’t been in the workforce long enough. Angry should still be the default position.

A glass to that.

I will never understand how feminists can *not* be angry. This anger that permeates feminism is absolutely justified, and since women are currently losing ground and gains are being unmade, I would expect the least we can do is understand why. At which point does being a second-class citizen become something we should…

Your mum sounds rad as hell. Please thank her for the work she and other women did to make things easier and fairer for my generation.